The Japan Information Center at Chicago has a news release on their site about the upcoming Suminagashi/Suimonga exhibition "New Branches from Ancient Roots"...
A terrible fire has destroyed a great part of The Duchess Anna Amalia's Library in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. About 30'000 books from 15th to 18th century...
Oh my what a terrible loss. To lose music in any way is a tragedy. I was brought up playing classical piano and my heart is heavy with sadness at the loss....
Jinny - what has caused the fire is not yet determined. In the beginning they assumed a short circuit, but now they have called in the federal arson...
Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a few links that I've recently found that feature some very interesting historic marbling on the web. Example number one,...
You have widened my horizon, Jake! I didn't know about marbling on early Am= erican notes before. Did the marbling play the role of a watermark, or were the...
Dear Susanne- and everyone else, Richard Wolfe certainly thinks that the use of marbling on these notes was a type of security device akin to a watermark that...
Jake, I spent a day, about 10 years ago, in the Philadelphia Historical Societies reading room, and, somehow, had access to Franklinšs accounting diaries. He...
Richard Wolfe has long wanted to establish a connection between marbling in= the US and Ben Franklin...but is reticent to do so given a paucity of evidence....
Jake, When I return to Philadelphia in February, I wouldnšt mind at all going back and making notes on the various entries about marbled paper purchases and...
Jake has not been able to go and see old messages posted to the Yahoo site. Has anyone else here been having this problem? Please post to 'Owner', if you are...
Hello Everyone, I tried to write to Oguzhan Tugrul at the email address: uygur13@... It no longer works. Anyone know where he is and what he is up to? I...
Hello Everyone, Yahoo is making plans to introduce a premium Yahoo Groups service. This means not all groups would remain free. This wouldn't be horrible,...
Jake, Hikmet is in Chicago all this week- thru Saturday, September 18, at the Turkish Culture Festival at Daley Plaza. Then he goes to Bangladesh. Oz, when...
leech541@...
Sep 16, 2004 3:20 am
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Hey folks, I've been asked to do a small sumingashi workshop here at USC. I wondered what people thought would be a good paper that was inexpensive yet worked...
Why not try some computer paper, the type fpr dot matrix, continuous, with the little pin holes? This used to work for me....it's thin like Japanese...
Hi, All, This morning, we got a call from our daughter who, after a short flight, discovered that her purse had been rifled with; she discovered this when...
carylhanc@...
Sep 17, 2004 4:46 pm
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Hi Jake and friends, I use and sell Loew Cornell's oriental rice paper. It works great for suminagashi. It is $13.75 for a pack of forty-eight twelve by...
dkmaurer1@...
Sep 17, 2004 5:26 pm
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Hello, In Chicagošs Daley Plaza last Tuesday, Milena and I watched aghast as Hikmet picked up his wonderful flower images using dot matrix, acid free copier/...
